Trail of the Spider

Overview

Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s portrayal of the “Vanishing Frontier” , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of a present day city increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations and private interests.

Cast

Floyd

The Man with No Name

Claudette Bonney

Marnie

Darren Matthews

Turnwood

Robin Laine

Dr. Harwell Carver

John Barker

JB

Jessica Rattigan

Jess

Graham Morris Almond

Judah

Andrew Westcott

Benton

Neil Burrows

Surveyors' Assistant

Norman Barrow

Man on Prairie